Re: [ 062/117] ext4: fix ext4_writepages() in presence of truncate

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Sep 30 2013 - 05:23:35 EST


On Mon 30-09-13 00:07:11, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 17:18 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit 5f1132b2ba8c873f25982cf45917e8455fb6c962 upstream.
> [...]
>
> Is this needed for any older kernel versions?
Commit 4e7ea81db53465ddd753678bc4cebf95369d0984 (and related ones)
introduced the problem. That was merged in 3.11-rc2 so that fix needs to be
only in 3.11 and newer stable kernels.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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